A number of excellent games have received content updates over the past few days, so we thought we’d highlight the most notable ones all in a single place. Check out what’s new in Canabalt, Assassin’s Creed Pirates, and Wayward Souls below.

Assassin’s Creed Pirates

This game of naval combat, which we quite enjoyed quite a bit in our review, has just received what Ubisoft is billing as the “Freedom Update.” It adds a new area called La Isla de la Juventud (which translates to “Island of Youth,” in case you were wondering), where you can do the right thing and free a bunch of slaves. The update also brings new ship customizations, a daily reward system that compels players to open the app each day, and some tweaks to the battle system that promise to make the ship-on-ship action more exciting. Download the update or buy the game if that sounds like a rousing good time.

Canabalt

In its first update since 2011, Canabalt has gained a handful of new features. The game now operates in widescreen, filling out the display on your 4-inch devices from end to end. They’ve also thrown in a handful of tiny new runners, a new music track, and a slightly tweaked app icon. It might be hard for you youngsters to believe, but when it originally appeared in 2009, Canabalt was one of the only endless runners on the App Store. How things have changed.

Wayward Souls

The bullet-point list of updated features for Wayward Souls is longer than War and Peace, but here are the highlights. The biggest addition is a new 20-floor dungeon called The Labyrinth, which sports a whole new boss of its own, and concludes the story for the six characters in the game. Smaller updates include tweaked controls for iPad, health potions that are “no longer awful,” and guaranteed rare chests after defeating bosses. Plus there’s a new “Super Secret Area,” full of “enigmatic horrors.” There’s a bunch more stuff, so check out the full list here.

The simple-looking yet hyper-challenging platformer Mr Jump has rocketed up the charts on the App Store, with 6 million downloads and counting. It’s a free game, with occasional ads and a few in-app purchase options. Touch Arcade spoke with the three-person team behind the app about their success, their inspiration, and where they’ll go from here.

“Most of our apps are puzzle games,” says Thomas. “With Mr Jump we wanted to show that we were capable of doing something different: more action oriented and ‘less simple’ graphically. But even if Mr Jump is a success it doesn’t mean we will stop making small and passionate puzzle games in the future. So our next game might be a puzzle game.”

Do you like auto-running platformers? Do you like Ancient Egyptian art? If so, you’ll want to check out this cool-looking game. It kind of looks like the recent PlayStation 4 game Apotheon, but Egyptian rather than Greek, and auto-running rather than directly controlled. You can download it here for $1.99.

If you have dreams of going to space (or at least sending others into space) you’ll want to check out this game, just ported over from PC. In it, you can choose to play as the director of one of three space programs, and your goal is to send stuff into space. From Touch Arcade’s 4 out of 5 star review:

Even though the game doesn’t offer the excitement of the space race to the degree I was hoping for, SPM is quite an enjoyable management game, especially for those with even a passing interest in space exploration. In addition to its replay value because of the variety of game modes, SPM also offers an abundance of information about the period’s space programs and hardware in its aptly-named Buzz-opedia. If you enjoy relatively deep management games and have even a passing interest in science and space, then this is definitely a game you should check out.

In this abstract game of organisms, microbes, and cells, you’re trying to avoid viruses and mines to make your way to the exit. The only problem is that the controls might not be up to snuff. Read Pocket Gamer’s review, which gave it a 6 out of 10.

What doesn’t work quite so well is the game’s awkward control system, with a drag-to-move system that never feels quite precise or consistent enough for the increasingly delicate maneuvers you need to make. That attack move is a counter-intuitive pain to pull off too.

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Do you like auto-running platformers? Do you like Ancient Egyptian art? If so, you’ll want to check out this cool-looking game. It kind of looks like the recent PlayStation 4 game Apotheon, but Egyptian rather than Greek, and auto-running rather than directly controlled. You can download it here for $1.99.

Silly Sausage in Meat Land is the latest game from Nitrome. This awesomely-named action game apparently plays like a mix between Retry and the old Nokia game Snake. Take a look at AppSpy’s video footage of the game, and keep an eye out for Silly Sausage’s release this week.

AppSpy’s review of Kiloo’s hack-and-slash adventure pegs it as a more casual take on the Infinity Blade franchise. There’s fewer things to collect, less ways to gear up, and you’ll ultimately hit the inevitable grind-or-pay wall that accompanies many free-to-play titles, but you’ll have a good time for an hour or so.

Turn-based strategy game Warhammer: Arcane Magic is coming to iOS at a yet-undisclosed date. That means some good old-fashioned medieval monster beat-downs.

Arcane Magic is said to have a lengthy single-player campaign that has you searching for Arcane Power. Along the way, you’ll face classic Warhammer monsters, including Harpies, Cygors, and Ghorgons, as well as Exalted Bloodthirsters, Lords of Change, and Keepers of Secrets.